Abishek Dai, We need to start this stuff! i know its not easy at all as the Kapil dai says, but how will we know until we have tried! I want to give my full support to you!
rho On 19 May 2011 16:50, Bibek Paudel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Abhishek Singh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 05/19/2011 10:43 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Date, Time, Venue? > > > > On 19 May 2011 09:06, Abhishek Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On 05/18/2011 09:48 PM, Kapil wrote: > >> > A very encouraging decision i'd say.I've been subscribed to this > >> > mailing list for quite a bit and perhaps this is the first one that > >> > really lifted my hope for a enlightened technical persons in Nepal. I > >> > hope you can come up with a detailed plan soon.Perhaps we'll can > muster > >> > enough from the community itself to take this initiative. > >> > > >> > Thank you, > >> > Kapil Raj Nakhwa > >> > > >> > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 10:03 +0545, Abhishek Singh wrote: > >> >> Dear All, > >> >> FOSS Nepal has been doing a lot of FOSS advocacy and > >> >> implementation since its inception. But we feel that there needs some > >> >> momentum in s/w development side as well. As most of the community > >> >> members are aligned towards programming/development, we would like to > >> >> explore in this area too. Also that the development would support > >> >> local needs (customizations and localization). In order to initiate > in > >> >> this direction, I would like to propose "Start-Up" sessions. The > >> >> concept is as below: > >> >> 1. To organize focussed weekly session on various techinical > >> >> how-tos. > >> >> 2. The programme would be targeted at developing skills in the > >> >> trainees. > >> >> 3. The programme, as the name suggests, would cater to create > >> >> basic technical expertise. > >> >> 4. The programme would help at capacity building for the > >> >> community members. > >> >> 5. The distant goal of this programme would be to create a pool > >> >> of people (might be divided into various SIGs, if the number > >> >> is large), so as to form a development concern inside the > >> >> community. > >> >> 6. Also that the programme will host a platform for the > community > >> >> members to meet and socialize. > >> >> I'm currently trying to prepare a detailed project plan for this > >> >> concept and your suggestions are not only welcome but highly > >> >> encouraged. As we all know that it's a community effort and would be > >> >> far from the community spirit without the involvement and feedback > >> >> from the community members. > >> >> > >> >> Thank You. > >> >> -- > >> >> Abhishek Singh > >> >> FOSS Nepal Community > >> >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org > >> > > >> Thanks Kapil for your encouraging words. I'll try to come up with the > >> plan as soon as possible. I'll be working on it on the weekend. We'll > >> need to decide on a first set (at least 5 sessions) to start with. > >> > >> Also that I would like to request everyone to suggest topics that they > >> would like to have start-up sessions upon. This will help us to finalize > >> a first set of session out of community interest. > >> > >> Thank You. > >> > >> -- > >> Abhishek Singh > >> FOSS Nepal Community > >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org > >> > >> > > > > > > > > I think the proposal is very nice and absolutely commendable. Just a > suggestion to Avishek: (from my observations) maybe it will not be a > good idea to start or 'plan things' until a few people share your > enthusiasm equally. This is certainly very hard for someone to do > alone, and even with just 'passive participants,' you might only feel > like having wasted your time later. > > However, single person's enthusiasm has achieved a lot of great > things- and certainly a generalized observation should not deter > anybody from trying out good things :) > > Cheers! > -b > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > -- シ ZZZZZZzzzzzzzssshhhhh.............. -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
